Lots of Portuguese music this week, as we feature Minta & the Brook Trout’s new record, Slow. In this week’s playlist you can also find new songs by Sensible Soccers, Sequin, Jibóia, and Deolinda. On the international side of it, time to revisit Sufjan Stevens’ Chicago through an old demo that has lately surfaced, plus brand new tracks by the likes of Britta Phillips, Quilt, Mothers, Marissa Nadler, Andrew Bird, Cate le Bon, Bullion, Junior Boys, Breakbot, and Malandrómeda.
Mount Moriah’s How to Dance comes out today. It’s our album of the week (month?) and there’s three songs off it on our weekly playlist. But there’s more: 13 more songs by Damien Jurado, Parquet Courts, Delta Spirit’s Matthew Logan Vasquez, Marlon Williams, Woods, Lake Street Dive, Plastic Flowers, Minor Victories, Pantha du Prince, Rosie Lowe, FKA twigs, ZAYN, and Freakwater.
Mavis Staples’ Livin’ on a High Note came out today and is on our spotlight this week!
This week on Bolachas Now Playing we explore Nap Eyes’ Thought Rock Fish Scale and Nils Frahm’s new project Nonkeen. There are also new songs by some of our old favorites such as Loretta Lynn, M. Ward, Parquet Courts, Kevin Morby, Cian Nugent, Luther Dickinson, Andrew Bird, Whitney, Gun Outfit, Holy Ghost!, and AlunaGeorge.
We’re proud to announce the definitive Portuguese dates of the Paper Beat Scissors European tour (Tim Crabtree solo). Tim will be playing in five Portuguese cities, starting tomorrow (February 10th) in Aveiro, opening for Canadian songwriter Hannah Epperson in Lisbon (11th), and then playing three more shows in Porto (12th), Vila Real (13th) and Évora (15th) before leaving for a couple more shows in southern Spain.